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It read: "I didn't mean to link Polish people and prostitution in the way that has been suggested, but of course I realise that some people have taken it that way and to those people I'm sorry for the unintentional offence."

His climbdown came on the same day that Communications Minister Lord Stephen Carter - the former head of media watchdog Ofcom - claimed the BBC had a "grip" on taste and decency problems.

Moyles, who earns £650,000 a year for presenting his breakfast show, made the comments on November 19.

The latest controversy comes days after the corporation was forced to apologise after the actor John Barrowman exposed himself live on air on the same radio station.

Last month the BBC received 42,000 complaints about a broadcast on Radio 2 by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand in which they made obscene phone calls to Andrew Sachs.